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U-S H A P E D P L A N E S

A U-shaped organization can define a forecourt for the approach to
a building as well as form an entrance recessed within the building volume.

Villa Trissino at Meledo, From The Four Books on Architecture, Andrea Palladio

A U-shaped building form can also serve as a container and can organize within
its field a cluster of forms and spaces.

Plan

Convent for the Dominican Sisters,
project, Media, Pennsylvania, 1965–68,
Louis Kahn.
The cells form an enclave for a village of
community rooms.

Front Elevation

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